Celiageary, Thank you for posting your message about the families from Islay relocating to Paisley, Scotland. I just noted on my map of Scotland that Paisley is near Glasgow. Does that make put it in the region of Oban? I ask because last summer 2005, my cousin Dugald McCallum, lives in Grey County, Ontario, asked if I had found any references to the McCallum family being from Oban? He said that as a child he remembers hearing the older generation talking about being from Oban. His grgrandparents are Isabella McLarty and Dugald McCallum whose headstones say they we natives of Islay, Scotland. This past March 2006, I went to my son's wedding in Oklahoma. To get from Washington State to Oklahoma I had to drive through the state of Wyoming where Dugald McCallum, third son of Dugald McCallum and Isabella McCallum lived in both Cheyenne and Wheatland. I stopped at the library in Wheatland and got a copy of Dugald's bio from a book entitled, "PROGRESSIVE MEN OF THE STATE OF WYOMING" (1903). In his bio Dugald states that in 1844 his parents emigrated from Paisley, Scotland to Canada, locating in Quebec. Dugald McCallum, son of Dugald McCallum and Isabella McLarty, was the first child born in Canada in November 1845, at St Andrews, Carillon, Quebec. He goes on to say that in 1847 the family relocated to Owen Sound, Ontario. I have a second question for The List. Has anyone else found that their family members weren't living in the "Cities" that the family said they were from? Dugald McCallum, third son of Dugald McCallum and Isabella McLarty is the second of my relatives to tell people that he was from Owen Sound. John Fawcett McCallum, grandson of Dugald McCallum and Isabella McLarty told his family, Manitoba branch, that he was from Owen Sound rather than 60 miles south in Grey County. Too, he never told his family that he was the oldest of the seven children born to Neil McCallum, eldest son of Dugald McCallum and Isabella McLarty. Nor did he tell them that his father was the eldest of the nine children born to Dugald McCallum and Isabella McLarty. You can imagine the SHOCK these people received when I located them, confirmed that they are the grandchildren of my grandmother's eldest brother and began to share with them the information on the "REST OF THE FAMILY". One member, Evelyn, didn't believe what I was saying until she took a look at the copy of my grandmother's wedding photo and saw the resemblance she bears to my grandmother. The copy of John Fawcett's, her grandfather, birth certificate wasn't proof enough. Sorry this is so long. Sharon Huber , Bellingham, Washington ----- Original Message ----- From: "celiageary" <celia_geary@infogen.net.nz> To: <SCT-ISLAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 4:10 AM Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] 2009 Heads up > Many Islay people relocated to Paisley after the potato famine in 1847(yes > it affected Islay too). Whole families relocated. Usually the husband went > first and then the teenage boys and finally the younger members of the > family and the mother. It was a chain emigration and often resulted in > further emigration to other countries such as Canada, Australia and new > Zealand. Celia. > > > ==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== > Here are some links related to the Isle of Islay: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/islay/links.htm >